Heading down to the beach in June

MARLO

Jim McClymont

mcclymont@net-tech.com.au

As winter arrives, the fishing typically quietens down a bit, and many anglers start following the local football and netball teams. However, the keen anglers will of course continue fishing through all seasons.

The whole estuary is still in excellent condition and the fish are plentiful, and we’re getting reports of quality fish being caught. Bream can be found in good numbers from the Marlo entrance all the way up the Snowy River to the highway bridge at

Orbost. Some of the young local anglers have been getting bream from 30cm up to 40cm+, as well as bass fishing, and getting excellent results using several diverse types of lures.

The Brodribb is fishing identically, with bream being caught all the way up to Lake Curlip, and estuary perch being taken on the snags and structures in the same area. Luderick are schooling along the rock groynes that surround the islands, riverbanks and mudbank drop-offs.

Estuary flathead are still on the sand flats that run from the Marlo jetty all the way down to Frenchs Narrows, sharing the space with the last of the prawn run and eating their fill before the prawns run to the ocean.

We’ve been getting reports from many anglers of big schools of salmon and tailor coming into the estuary on the incoming tides. The salmon and tailor have been